Dick Haffner and the New Ross Blue Jays
By Butch Dale Photo provided.
Dick Haffner, local extra- doinaire of the basketball court. Photo provided.
Haffner showing off his trophy for being the â1956 Outstanding Seniorâ • • • Whenever I hear the Haffner name, I automatically think of the outstanding New Ross teams of the late 1950s and early 1960s. There were three Haffner boys . . . Dick, who graduated in 1956, Phil in 1961, and Ron in 1966 . . . all of them great athletes. The oldest boy, Dick, started every game at center from his freshman year on. During his four years of playing, with Glen Harper as coach, the Blue Jays compiled a regular season record of 65-16, winning their first Sectional Tourney in 1954 when Dick was a sophomore, and then winning both the County and Sectional in 1956 when he was a senior.his team going undefeated with a record o
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COLUMBUS, Ohio –The Ohio State Department of Athletics and its men’s basketball program mourn the loss of Jody Finney, a member of the 1968 Final Four team and Howard Nourse, a member of the 1960 NCAA Champion Buckeyes.
Finney, a native of Springfield, Ohio, died May 2. Nourse, also from Springfield, passed away April 18.
Nourse averaged 3.1 points a game in a reserve role as a senior backing up Jerry Lucas. Nourse played in 37 career games for the Buckeyes from 1958-60.
Nourse held a PhD in Education Administration from Ohio State. He was involved in Christian higher education as an athletics director, coach, and administrator for over 16 years, including Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Milligan College. He retired in 2009.
Hillbilly Elegy author eyes Senate bid in Ohio
J.D. Vance says he is “thinking seriously” about running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Rob Portman in 2022. Author: DAN SEWELL (Associated Press) Published: 4:09 PM EDT April 16, 2021 Updated: 4:09 PM EDT April 16, 2021
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio Rodney Muterspaw figures J.D. Vance has already shown he s got what it takes to be a U.S. senator.
Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and a fellow Middletown native, broke out of poverty and family chaos and never forgot his Appalachian roots on his way to success.
“I think he can talk in a way that the average person can understand,” said the retired police chief, who, like Vance, has eastern Kentucky roots. “I’m a hillbilly, and I understand him 100%.”
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By DAN SEWELL Associated Press
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) Rodney Muterspaw figures J.D. Vance has already shown he’s got what it takes to be a U.S. senator.
Vance, the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and a fellow Middletown native, broke out of poverty and family chaos and never forgot his Appalachian roots on his way to success.
“I think he can talk in a way that the average person can understand,” said the retired police chief, who, like Vance, has eastern Kentucky roots. “I’m a hillbilly, and I understand him 100%.”
Muterspaw’s view is at the heart of the fiercest political debate in Ohio. With his 2016 book, Vance helped explain to the nation Donald Trump’s popularity among the white Appalachian working class of his upbringing. Now at 36, the bestselling author is considering whether he can win the votes of the people he claims to know so well.
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âHillbilly Elegyâ Author JD Vance May See Next Chapter Focus on Run for Ohio’s U.S. Senate Seat
Apr 18, 2021
FILE â In this Nov. 16, 2016, file photo, J.D. Vance, author of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, poses for a photograph at Miami University s student center in Oxford, Ohio. Vance, whose book helped explain to the nation Donald Trump s popularity among the Appalachian working class, is thinking seriously about running for the U.S. Senate seat Republican two-term incumbent Rob Portman decided against seeking again in 2022. (AP Photo/Dan Sewell, File)
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) Rodney Muterspaw figures J.D. Vance has already shown he’s got what it takes to be a U.S. senator.